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CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE: 

'THE  RESURRECTION  AND 
THE   LIFE" 

A   LECTURE    BY 

CLARENCE  W.  CHADWICK,  C.S.B. 

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Copyright,    1915,    by 
The  Christian  Science  Publishing  Society. 


CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 
"THE  RESURRECTION  AND   THE   LIFE" 

THE  scientific  presentation  of  the  subject  of 
Christian  Science,  involving  as  it  does  the 
vastness  of  infinity,  is  destined  to  encounter  a  wide 
range  of  human  belief,  theory  and  opinion;  and 
the  question  naturally  suggests  itself.  Why  is  it 
that  Christian  people,  actuated  by  the  same  lofty 
aims  and  ambitions,  working  side  by  side  in  their 
daily  vocations,  and  having  the  same  definite  goal 
before  them,  should  differ  so  radically  in  their 
thought  of  the  infinite? 

Centuries  have  passed  since  these  assuring  words 
of  the  prophet  Jeremiah:  "They  shall  all  know 
me,  from  the  least  of  them  unto  the  greatest  of 
them,  saith  the  Lord;"  and  the  positive  promise 
of  the  Master,  "There  shall  be  one  fold  and  one 
shepherd,"  and  still  there  is  a  deplorable  lack  of 
unity  among  professing  Christians  throughout  the 
civilized  world,  and  still  we  find  "an  altar  with  this 
inscription,  To  the  Unknown  God."  Why  is  it? 
The  answer  is  plain;  forgetting  that  spiritual 
things  can  be  only  spiritually  discerned,  humanity 
has  been  trying  to  know  God,  to  see  good,  through 
the  human  mind  or  material  senses.  Almost  un- 
consciously it  has  drifted  farther  and  farther  away 


4  CHRISTIAK   SCIENCE: 

from  the  Mind  that  was  with  Christ  Jesus,  and 
"the  commandments  of  men"  have  taken  the  place 
of  sound  doctrine.  Christian  Science  has  come 
as  the  resurrection  of  primitive  Christianity  and 
its  lost  art  of  healing,  and  all  who  will  may  prove 
by  demonstration  the  verity  of  its  teachings.  It 
is  not  the  purpose  of  this  lecture,  however,  to  force 
conclusions  upon  so  important  a  subject,  but  to 
speak  from  that  viewpoint  of  the  Science  which 
has  enabled  its  adherents  to  find  in  it  a  satisfying 
explanation  of  the  phenomenon  of  human  exist- 
ence. 

POINT    OF    AGREEMENT 

There  is  perhaps  one  basic  thought  upon  which 
all  religionists  agree  at  the  very  outset — namely, 
Consciousness  is.  We  all  assent  to  the  fact  that 
we  are  in  a  conscious  state  of  being  or  existence, 
and  that  without  such  consciousness  we  would  cease 
to  exist.  So  far,  so  good.  But  when  we  attempt 
to  call  this  consciousness  good,  we  immediately 
plunge  into  an  abyss  of  darkness  from  which  the 
Christian  world  for  centuries  has  been  struggling 
to  extricate  itself,  that  of  mingling  good  and  evil, 
calling  evil  good  and  good  evil.  This  dualistic 
concept  of  consciousness  has  been  the  seeming 
cause  of  untold  suffering  and  torment  to  the  hu- 
man race.  It  is  evident  then  that  from  it  human- 
ity must  escape  if  it  would  ever  reach  what  is  called 
heaven.    Hence  its  need  of  a  Saviour. 


-THE   RESURRECTION   AND  THE   LIFE"         6 
CONSCIOUSNESS    DEFINED 

Here  Christian  Science  steps  forth  into  the 
arena  of  mental  activity  and  gives  a  definition  of^ 
consciousness  which  enables  us  to  differentiate  be- 
tween what  is  real  and  eternal  and  what  is  unreal 
and  temporal.  It  defines  consciousness  as  the  one 
infinite  intelligence  or  Mind,  which  is  God,  or 
Spirit.  It  makes  clear  to  the  receptive  thought 
that  the  so-called  consciousness  of  both  good  and 
evil  is  not  in  spiritual  accord  with  the  nature  of 
God  or  good.  Real  consciousness  being  God,  it  is 
infinite,  all  comprehensive  and  ever-present.  The 
moment  this  super-sensible  fact  is  admitted  we  are 
divinely  empowered  to  begin  the  all-important  work 
of  purifying  that  consciousness  which  claims  the 
capacity  and  privilege  to  know  evil  as  well  as  good. 

TRANSFORMATION    OF    HUMAN    CONSCIOUSNESS 

This  one  statement  on  page  276  of  Science  and 
Health,  by  Mrs.  Eddy,  "Real  consciousness  is  cog- 
nizant only  of  the  things  of  God,"  has  already 
aroused  a  slumbering  world  from  its  dream  of  life 
in  matter  to  the  great  need  of  mental  transforma- 
tion, for  it  is  the  abnormal  human  consciousness 
that  is  referred  to  in  the  scriptural  passages :  "No 
man  hath  seen  God  at  any  time,"  and  "There  shall 
no  man  see  me  and  live."  Is  it  any  wonder  that 
the  apostle  admonished,  "Be  ye  transformed  by  the 
renewing  of  your  mind"?  This  renewing  of  the 
mind  involves  the  separation  of  good  and  evil  in 


6  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 

consciousness,  of  right  thought  and  wrong  thought, 
a  mental  process  which  every  human  being  must 
undergo  before  he  can  fully  awaken  to  the  perfec- 
tion of  being.  Heaven  is,  always  has  been,  and 
always  will  be,  not  a  locality,  but  a  divine  harmo- 
nious state  of  consciousness  into  which  no  erro- 
neous or  evil  thought  ever  entered  or  ever  can 
enter.  It  therefore  follows  conclusively  that  all 
wrong  thought  must  be  purged  from  consciousness, 
and  that  our  heaven  will  be  found  here  and  now 
just  to  the  extent  that  we  reject  the  evil  and  lay 
hold  of  the  good.  How  to  distinguish  between 
right  and  wrong  thought  will  be  our  main  con- 
cern. Right  thoughts  or  ideas  in  Christian  Sci- 
ence are  emanations  of  the  one  divine  Mind  or 
intelligence.  They  are  the  only  avenues  or  chan- 
nels through  which  the  one  Mind  finds  expression. 
We  could  not  conceive  of  an  expressionless  Mind 
or  intelligence.  Wrong  thoughts  are  human  be- 
liefs only,  therefore  finite,  mutable  and  mortal. 
They  do  not  convey  intelligence  or  real  Mind  to 
man.  They  have  neither  Principle,  power  nor  law 
to  sustain  them,  and  no  mission  to  perform. 
Wrong  thoughts  are  no  part  of  real  consciousness. 
In  no  way  does  God  sanction  or  uphold  them.  But 
how  shall  we  detect  and  cast  out  such  counterfeits 
of  reality?  Obviously  by  gaining  an  understand- 
ing of  genuine  or  right  thoughts.  Jesus  said, 
"Ye  shall  know  the  truth,  and  the  truth  shall  make 
you  free."  The  right  idea  of  intelligence  or  Mind 
and  of  what  constitutes  its  expression  or  mani- 


"THE   RESURRECTION   AND   THE   LIFE"         7 

festation  will  certainly  free  us  from  any  mistaken 
sense  of  Mind.  It  is  always  a  knowledge  of  the 
truth  which  corrects  and  does  away  with  mistakes. 
So  long  as  we  place  both  good  and  evil  on  the  same 
level  of  human  belief  we  fail  to  understand  the 
true  nature  of  either.  The  moment  we  accept 
good  as  -supreme  and  as  the  spiritual  reality  of 
being,  that  very  moment  do  we  acknowledge  a 
divine  Principle  or  law  which  operates  mentally 
through  the  idea  of  infinite  good  to  destroy  all 
belief  in  evil.  Here,  then,  is  the  way  out  of  our 
dilemma. 

RIGHT    MENTAL    ACTIVITY 

If  two  men  are  in  a  frenzied  state  of  thought, 
and  almost  upon  the  point  of  inflicting  bodily  in- 
jury upon  each  other,  we  all  know  that  a  certain 
degree  of  right  mental  activity  on  their  part  will 
soon  restore  harmony,  in  fact,  we  cannot  think  of 
any  other  possible  means  of  bringing  about  such 
a  result.  If  a  pupil  in  mathematics  becomes  con- 
fused in  thought  and  cannot  work  out  his  problem, 
we  know  that  the  influence  of  right  thought  will 
soon  adjust  the  difficulty  and  enable  him  to  solve 
his  problem.  We  all  acknowledge  that  his  state  of 
consciousness  must  change  before  he  can  complete 
his  work. 

If  a  friend  is  prostrated  with  grief,  thinking 
that  life  is  drear  and  lonely,  we  know  and  acknowl- 
edge that  the  application  of  rightly  directed 
thought  will  very  soon  act  as  oil  upon  the  troubled 


8  CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE: 

waters,  and  mourning  will  be  turned  into  joy.  If 
fear  overwhelms  one  we  admit  that  a  thought  of 
God's  power  and  presence  very  soon  banishes  the 
fear.  Then  why  should  not  the  poor  sick  man, 
suffering  from  some  ailment  which  has  no  possible 
existence  outside  of  the  realm  of  mortal  conscious- 
ness, be  healed  through  the  operation  of  God's 
thoughts?  The  activity  of  right  thought  is  no 
finite  or  limited  capacity.  Neither  is  it  any  re- 
specter of  persons,  troubles  or  diseases.  It  is  as 
natural  for  right  thought  to  heal  as  it  is  for  the 
sun  to  shine.  All  of  the  mental  disorders  which 
we  know  yield  to  the  exercise  of  right  thinking  are 
capable  of  producing  what  are  termed  physical 
or  bodily  diseases.  To  say  then  that  such  diseases, 
which  are  only  a  different  form  or  error,  cannot 
be  healed  by  mental  means  is  to  dispute  the 
practical  application  of  spiritually  enlightened 
thought. 

When  the  right  idea  of  God  as  being  the  one 
infinite  all-good  consciousness  enters  the  area  of 
our  thinking  and  reasoning  capacity,  the  activity 
of  righteousness  is  allowed  to  assert  itself,  and  just 
as  darkness  is  displaced  by  the  light,  so  are  wrong 
thoughts  displaced  by  scientific  or  God-like 
thoughts.  The  moment  the  true  idea  of  Mind  en- 
ters individual  consciousness,  real  constructive 
mental  work  begins  therein.  This  idea,  operating 
through  law  and  as  law,  demands  the  perfect  read- 
justment of  finite  human  consciousness.  The  di- 
vine idea  is  Mind's  true  and  lawful  representative, 


"THE   RESURRECTION   AND  THE   LIFE"         9 

and  Mind  has  no  other.  It  is  the  only  agent  that 
is  clothed  with  power  and  authority  to  carry  out 
the  purposes  of  its  Principle,  God.  Let  us  never 
forget  that  the  only  real  power  in  the  universe 
is  divine  Mind  and  is  expressed  or  reflected 
through  its  own  idea,  never  through  changing  hu- 
man beliefs.  In  all  directions,  far  and  near,  we 
hear  of  the  continuous  unfolding  of  this  universal 
idea  of  Mind,  of  the  wonderful  healing  and  trans- 
formation of  human  thought,  of  the  peace  and  joy 
and  happiness  that  have  entered  into  the  world 
through  its  loving  ministrations,  and  we  are  led  to 
exclaim,  "Is  not  this  the  Christ.'^" 

THE    CHRIST    WITHIN 

The  world  is  fast  losing  its  limited  personal 
sense  of  the  Saviour  of  men  and  is  looking  more 
to  the  Christ  within.  Is  it  not  a  present  resurrec- 
tion and  spiritual  Life  that  Christians  are  most 
deeply  interested  in  ?  Christian  Science  urges  upon 
all  mankind  the  necessity  of  opening  the  door  of 
consciousness  to  receive  this  king  of  glory,  this 
ever-present  saving  Christ  idea  which  comes  as 
of  old  "with  healing  in  his  wings."  David  cried, 
"Who  IS  this  King  of  glory?  The  Lord  strong 
and  mighty,  the  Lord  mighty  in  battle."  This 
certainly  conveys  an  impersonal  concept  of  the 
Christ,  Truth,  a  divine  activity  or  influence  which  is 
indeed  mighty  to  heal  all  our  diseases.  Every  hu- 
man failure  to  prove  the  power  of  good  is  a  failure 
to  leave  all  for  Christ.    Whenever  human  will  sur- 


10  CHRISTIAN   science: 

reftders  to  the  divine  there  is  a  victory  won  on  the 
side  of  Truth,  but  not  before.  The  great  Teacher 
of  mankind,  whose  consciousness  Was  ever  domi- 
nated by  the  Christ  idea,  said,  "I  can  of  mine  own 
self  do  nothing."  What  a  rebuke  to  pride  and 
human  will  power!  If  all  who  profess  to  love  the 
Truth  could  grasp  the  metaphysical  viewpoint  of 
the  great  apostle  when  he  said,  "I  can  do  all  things 
through  Christ  which  strengtheneth  me  "  they  would 
be  in  touch  with  the  only  healing  and  redeeming  ac- 
tivity known  to  the  world.  This  Christ  idea  speak- 
ing through  Jesus  said,  "Without  me  [severed  from 
me]  ye  can  do  nothing."  This  statement  is  of 
vital  import  to  the  whole  world,  for  severed  from 
the  understanding  of  the  true  idea  through  which 
the  nature  of  divinity  is  imparted  to  humanity, 
we  would  all  find  ourselves  in  a  very  sad  plight, 
without  healing  or  salvation.  As  we  stop  to  pon- 
der the  thought  that  good  can  find  expression  only 
through  goodness.  Love  only  through  that  which 
loves,  Truth  only  through  that  which  is  truthful,  we 
can  begin  to  see  the  intimate  relationship  between 
God  and  His  idea.  They  are  indissolubly  con- 
nected, so  that  they  never  have  existed  and  never 
can  exist  separate  and  apart  from  each  other. 
The  Christ-idea,  therefore,  was  never  for  one 
moment  separated  from  the  Father,  but  through 
the  pure  humanity  of  Jesus  it  found  its  normal 
and  harmonious  manifestation  in  those  wonderful 
words  and  works  which  are  today  as  never  before 
attracting  world-wide  attention. 


"THE   RESURRECTION   AND   THE  LIFE"       11 
OUR    SAVIOUR 

In  the  experience  of  humanity  a  right  idea  is 
always  a  saving  idea.  When  it  is  seen  that  an 
erroneous  concept  of  God  is  really  responsible  for 
all  the  evil  in  the  world,  it  will  naturally  follow 
that  a  right  concept  of  Deity  will  be  the  only 
means  of  correcting  such  evil.  And  this  correc- 
tion will  take  place  in  human  consciousness,  where 
all  belief  in  evil  must  obtain.  Thus  we  find  in 
Christian  Science  that  the  right  idea  of  good  frees 
us  from  everything  that  is  unlike  good;  the  right 
idea  of  health  enables  us  to  overcome  disease,  the 
right  idea  of  Love  destroys  all  sense  of  hate;  the 
right  idea  of  power  enables  us  to  prove  the  domin- 
ion of  good;  the  right  idea  of  supply  makes  it 
possible  to  conquer  all  belief  in  poverty  or  lack; 
the  right  idea  of  success  leads  to  the  overcoming 
of  all  merely  selfish  or  worldly  aims  and  ambitions ; 
the  right  idea  of  Spirit  turns  the  light  of  spiritual 
understanding  on  matter  and  robs  it  of  all  life, 
substance  and  intelligence,  thus  enabling  us  to 
overcome  its  discordant  conditions  and  so-called 
laws ;  the  right  idea  of  causation  does  away  with 
belief  in  secondary  or  evil  causes;  the  right  idea 
of  activity  leads  to  the  subjugation  of  the  self- 
assertive  human  will ;  in  other  words,  the  right  idea 
of  God,  man  and  the  universe  is  our  present  means 
of  escape  from  all  that  would  separate  us  from 
God,  good.  Is  not  this  "the  resurrection,  and  the 
life".? 


12  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 

As  human  consciousness  becomes  purged  of  the 
dross  of  materialism,  it  is  resurrected  from  a  false 
material  sense  to  a  higher  or  spiritual  sense.  Only 
through  this  thorough  purification  of  thought  can 
we  come  face  to  face  mentally  with  things  spiritual 
and  eternal.  "Blessed  are  the  pure  in  heart,  for 
they  shall  see  God,"  good.  God  is  not  revealed  to 
humanity  through  a  good  and  evil  consciousness. 
Whoever  insists  upon  owning  such  a  consciousness 
has  not  therefore  partaken  of  the  resurrection. 
This  fact  is  one  that  should  receive  more  thought- 
ful consideration  at  the  hands  of  all  Christian  peo- 
ple, for  it  most  vitally  concerns  the  welfare  of  all 
humanity.  The  most  unnatural  of  all  unnatural 
things  is  to  believe  that  evil  is  any  part  of  real 
consciousness.  Such  belief  does  not  honor  our 
Creator.  The  possibility  of  finally  attaining  a 
perfect  state  of  consciousness  is  patent  to  all 
Christians  Scientists,  and  there  is  untold  joy  and 
happiness  and  satisfaction  in  striving  for  its  ac- 
complishment, here  and  now.  It  pays  daily  divi- 
dends in  a  renewed  sense  of  health,  strength  and 
happiness.  Only  through  the  coming  of  Christ,  of 
the  true  idea  of  God,  can  this  ever  take  place. 

When  Christ  appears,  the  tares  (wrong 
thoughts)  are  bound  in  bundles  to  burn,  while  the 
wheat  (good  thoughts)  is  gathered  into  the 
Father's  storehouse.  He  who  is  first  to  acknowl- 
edge that  the  dual  consciousness  of  good  and  evil 
is  in  absolute  need  of  a  Saviour  is  the  first  to  ac- 
quaint himself  with  God  and  to  be  at  peace. 


"THE   RESURRECTION   AND  THE   LIFE"       18 


LOVE    FOR    CHRIST    JESUS 

There  are  no  people  on  earth  who  feel  and  ex- 
press more  genuine  affection  and  love  for  Christ 
Jesus  than  do  Christian  Scientists.  They  not  only 
believe  but  they  understand  why  he  is  to  them  "the 
resurrection  and  the  life."  They  reverently  ac- 
knowledge him  as  the  Saviour  of  the  world,  and 
they  are  striving  to  keep  his  commandments.  They 
know  only  too  well  that  something  more  than  lip 
service  is  required  to  enable  them  to  follow  in  his 
mental  footsteps.  They  realize  that  the  whole 
plan  of  salvation  is  nothing  short  of  a  mental  and 
moral  healing  and  regeneration,  whereby  the  so- 
called  human  consciousness  surrenders  to  the  di- 
vine, which,  as  has  already  been  stated,  "is  cogniz- 
ant only  of  the  things  of  God."  This  being  the 
case  we  must  begin  now  to  think  our  way  into  the 
kingdom  of  heaven.  No  one  of  us  will  ever  reach 
this  harmonious  state  without  being  conscious  of 
it.  It  is  not  an  experience  outside  of  or  independ- 
ent of  consciousness.  The  apostle  knew  this  when 
admonishing  us  to  have  in  us  the  same  Mind  that 
was  in  Christ  Jesus.  He  knew  that  there  was  a 
mental  crucifixion  and  resurrection  for  us  all  to 
pass  through  before  we  can  become  conscious  of 
good  only.  The  Christ  idea  of  purity,  operating 
in  human  consciousness,  offers  to  Christian  Scien- 
tists, as  well  as  to  all  others  the  only  means  of 
escape  from  wrong  thinking  and  its  attendant  dis- 
cordant effects.     Jesus  taught  "as  one  having  au- 


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thority  and  not  as  the  scribes."  What  gave  him 
authority  to  speak  as  never  man  spake  and  to  do 
the  works  which  the  scribes  and  pharisees  did  not 
and  could  not  do?  Was  it  not  his  transcendent 
sense  of  the  naturalness  of  Spirit?  He  recognized 
the  sovereignty  of  good  and  yielded  uncompromis- 
ing obedience  thereto.  This  very  obedience  en- 
dowed him  with  power  from  on  high,  and  in  the 
measure  of  our  obedience  to  this  same  divine  Prin- 
ciple, which  Science  calls  God,  and  which  is  no 
respecter  of  persons,  we  too  can  reflect  the  same 
power. 

Is  it  sacrilegious  for  us  to  lay  claim  to  our 
divine  inheritance,  to  think  and  to  act  as  if  we 
possessed  at  least  a  measure  of  divine  intelligence? 
Could  we  very  well  do  otherwise  if  we  are  to  allow 
the  Christ  Mind  to  control  us  ? 

GOOD    ALL    POWER 

One  of  the  very  first  things  which  the  student  of 
Christian  Science  does  after  gaining  even  a  faint 
glimpse  of  the  truth  of  his  being  is  to  give  all 
power  to  good  and  none  to  evil.  The  door  to  the 
kingdom  of  heaven  is  opened  to  him  the  moment 
he  does  this.  Then  he  wonders  how  he  spent  so 
many  years  in  believing  in  two  powers  while  calling 
one  of  them  omnipotent.  The  inconsistency  of 
such  a  mental  attitude  never  before  appeared  to 
him.  He  now  sees  where  it  was  the  main  barrier 
to  his  moral  and  spiritual  growth.  This  one  point 
in  metaphysics  is  so  simple  that  multitudes  of  pro- 


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fessing  Christians  stumble  over  it.  They  pray 
earnestly  for  deliverance  from  evil,  but  never  once 
does  it  seem  to  occur  to  them  to  give  all  power  to 
good  by  withholding  all  from  evil.  They  may 
declare  with  the  lips  that  God  is  almighty,  but 
they  still  believe  that  there  is  an  evil  power.  This 
bars  the  door  to  the  coming  of  Christ,  Truth,  to 
the  coming  of  that  spiritual  activity,  which  corrects 
and  destroys  all  mistaken  belief  in  a  good  and  evil 
power.  When  all  Christian  people  are  ready  to 
take  Jesus  at  his  word  and  to  call  evil  a  self-con- 
stituted lie  as  he  did,  they  will  comprehend  for 
the  first  time  the  true  significance  of  omnipotence, 
and  meekly,  humbly  and  joyfully  begin  to  do  the 
healing  works  which  he  did.  When  referring  to 
the  divinity  of  this  very  teaching  Jesus  said:  "If 
any  man  will  do  his  (God's)  will,  he  shall  know  of 
the  doctrine,  whether  it  be  of  God,  or  whether  I 
speak  of  myself."  Do  the  harsh  critics  of  Chris- 
tian Science  ever  go  so  far  as  to  apply  the  sacred 
rules  of  this  Science  before  proclaiming  their  false 
impressions  of  its  teachings?  If  they  did,  they 
would  cease  to  condemn  a  religion  which  they  have 
failed  to  understand  metaphysically.  The  omni- 
potence of  good  is  not  an  argument,  it  is  a  spirit- 
ual or  supersensible  fact,  and  can  be  understood 
only  through  the  practise  of  good  "with  signs 
following."  Arguing  against  its  validity  or  prac- 
ticability will  never  repeat  the  works  of  the  Mas- 
ter nor  help  any  one  to  understand  his  sacred 
teachings. 


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Some  one  is  no  doubt  questioning  as  to  what 
it  is  that  prevents  our  admitting  and  proving  the 
supremacy  of  good.  Is  it  God  keeping  us  away 
from  himself?  Impossible!  Is  it  the  conscious- 
ness of  good,  or  the  supposed  consciousness  of  a 
power  or  presence  opposed  to  good?  Evidently 
the  latter.  In  its  explanation  of  this  very  point 
Christian  Science  has  proved  itself  more  than  a 
friend  to  humanity,  for  it  not  only  makes  clear 
to  us  our  weak  points,  but  it  also  shows  us  how 
to  correct  them.  It  leaves  us  in  no  doubt  as  to 
changes  which  must  take  place  in  consciousness 
before  we  can  attain  to  right-mindedness.  It  tells 
us  in  unmistakable  terms  that  the  evidence  before 
the  five  physical  senses  is  not  the  reality  or  sub- 
stance of  life. 

It  tells  us  we  must  heed  the  admonition  of  the 
apostle.  "Awake  thou  that  sleepest,  and  arise 
from  the  dead,  and  Christ  shall  give  thee  light." 
From  what  must  we  awaken?  Not  from  a  con- 
scious state  of  existence  which  is  real  and  eternal. 
That  would  be  impossible.  The  apostle  would 
have  us  infer  that  we  are  asleep,  even  dead,  but 
that  Christ  will  give  us  the  light  of  understanding 
to  awaken  from  this  dream  sense  of  existence.  It 
may  be  humiliating  to  some  to  be  told  that  they 
are  "dead  in  trespasses  and  sins,"  but  sooner  or 
later  the  admission  of  a  mortal  consciousness  which 
knows  nothing  of  health  or  salvation  will  be  made 
by  all  mankind.  It  is  from  this  false  sense  or  con- 
sciousness that  every  human  being  must  eventually, 


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here  or  hereafter,  awaken  that  he  may  become  con- 
scious of  the  true  idea  of  God,  good.  It  is  then 
that  he  begins  to  partake  of  "the  resurrection, 
and  the  life."  Paul  referred  to  it  as  the  putting 
off  of  the  old  man  and  the  putting  on  of  the  new. 
It  means  the  "new  creature"  in  Christ,  in  other 
words,  a  God-corrected  mentality. 

A  mentality  which  has  been  thus  corrected  by 
the  right  idea  of  good  is  one  that  is  mentally  alive 
or  awake  to  metaphysical  facts,  and  is  dying  daily 
to  sense  testimony.  Wherever  the  Christ  activity 
has  begun  to  find  expression  in  individual  con- 
sciousness, behold  a  better  man  or  woman,  one  who 
is  more  practical,  more  honest,  more  loving,  more 
sympathetic,  more  generous,  more  considerate, 
more  capable  in  every  respect.  There  is  not  a 
single  human  activity  that  is  not  experiencing  this 
leavening  and  healing  influence  of  the  Christ- 
idea  today.  Disobedience  to  God's  law  is  what 
retards  normal  human  progress,  while  obedience 
to  it  leads  immediately  to  a  present  participation 
in  all  that  makes  for  the  mental,  moral  and  physi- 
cal uplift  of  humanity. 

MRS.    EDDY 

Mary  Baker  Eddy,  the  acknowledged  Discoverer 
and  Founder  of  Christian  Science,  was  a  truly 
wonderful  woman.  Her  genuine  nobility  of  charac- 
ter, her  intensely  religious  nature,  her  unbounded 
love  for  God  and  humanity,  her  untiring  labors 
for  the  good  of  mankind,  her  sublime  courage  and 


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trust,  made  her  one  of  the  world's  greatest  of  re- 
ligious Leaders  and  Teachers.  The  one  dominat- 
ing feature  of  her  life  was  that  she  had  learned 
the  meaning  of  Love  and  how  to  reflect  it  toward 
friend  and  foe  alike.  She  claimed  no  infallibility 
nor  sought  any  personal  aggrandizement  .  Those 
who  knew  her  best  affirm  that  she  was  a  wise  spir- 
itual counselor  and  a  true  friend.  The  spirit  of 
Christian  charity  controlled  her  every  thought  and 
action.  When  she  was  reviled,  she  reviled  not 
again.  She  said  of  her  former  church:  "I  love 
the  orthodox  church,  and  in  time  that  church  will 
love  Christian  Science"  (Miscellaneous  Writings, 
page  111.)  Christian  Science  did  not  originate 
in  Mrs.  Eddy's  human  mind.  It  was  the  Christ 
idea  of  the  oneness  and  allness  of  divine  Mind  that 
found  expression  in  her  purified  mentality.  She 
had  reached  a  purified  mental  height  which  made 
it  possible  for  the  Christ  consciousness  to  assert 
itself  as  the  law  and  dominion  of  good.  She  yielded 
willing  and  loving  obedience  to  this  spiritual  evan- 
gel, and  as  a  result  of  this  obedience  Christian 
healing  is  again  an  established  fact  in  our  midst. 
The  Christian  Science  text-book,  "Science  and 
Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures,"  is  the  natural 
and  logical  outcome  of  Mrs.  Eddy's  unselfed  de- 
votion and  fidelity  to  the  spiritual  idea.  It  is 
doubtful  whether  any  one  of  her  followers  has  as 
yet  been  able  to  feel  or  to  express  his  full  measure 
of  gratitude  for  what  has  come  to  the  world 
through  the  devotion  and  self-sacrifice  of  this  noble 


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woman.  It  cannot  well  be  measured  by  any  human 
standard.  The  dawning  of  the  spiritual  idea  in 
Mrs.  Eddy's  Love-chastened  consciousness  is  the 
greatest  mental  phenomenon  that  could  ever  be 
experienced  by  a  human  being.  Its  importance  to 
the  human  race  is  beyond  comparison.  It  is  "the 
resurrection  and  the  life"  to  all  who  humbly  appro- 
priate it  and  begin  to  live  according  to  its  divine 
requirements. 

LIFE,    HOW    LEARNED 

Nothing  could  be  more  fatal  to  one's  happiness 
and  success  than  to  entertain  a  mistaken  sense  of 
life.  The  Christ  method  of  learning  Life  is  made 
plain  in  Christian  Science.  It  is  so  simple  and 
practical  that  young  and  old  alike  may  readily 
adopt  it.  The  Master  clearly  defined  eternal  Life, 
and  Christian  Science  has  adequately  interpreted 
his  words:  "This  is  life  eternal,  that  they  might 
know  thee  the  only  true  God,  and  Jesus  Christ, 
whom  thou  hast  sent."  In  the  light  of  Christian 
Science  it  is  evident  that  a  right  knowledge  or  un- 
derstanding of  God  and  His  Christ  makes  us  the 
inheritors  of  Life  eternal  here  and  now.  Such 
knowledge  is  absolutely  dependent  upon  scientific 
or  right  thinking. 

The  acceptance  and  adoption  of  right  thoughts 
or  ideas  inaugurates  in  individual  consciousness 
an  activity  which  dissipates  all  wrong  thinking, 
and  must  eventually  destroy  all  belief  in  sin  and 
death.     The  advent  of  this  mental  awakening  in 


20  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 

individual  experience  marks  our  entrance  into  eter- 
nal Life.  Every  kind  act  on  our  part,  every  loving 
sacrifice  for  the  good  of  others,  means  just  so 
much  of  deathless  Life  for  us  here  and  now;  in 
other  words,  the  more  good  we  do  and  embody,  the 
more  permanent  becomes  our  sense  of  Life.  Mal- 
ice, envy  and  hatred,  all  sinful  thinking,  brings 
suffering  and  death  into  the  world.  Right  thinking 
brings  health  and  peace  and  joy  and  life.  As  the 
apostle  expressed  it:  "To  be  carnally  minded  is 
death;  but  to  be  spiritually  minded  is  life  and 
peace."  The  deathless  Christ-idea  spake  through 
Jesus :  "I  am  the  light  of  the  world :  he  that  f  oUow- 
eth  me  shall  not  walk  in  darkness,  but  shall  have 
the  light  of  life."  How  shall  we  follow  the  great 
Wayshower  except  as  we  begin  to  think  as  he 
thought.?  His  whole  life  was  one  continuous  ser- 
vice of  thinking  and  doing  good.  His  mission  on 
earth  was  to  abolish  from  consciousness  all  thought 
of  death,  and  to  bring  "life  and  immortality  to 
light  through  the  gospel."  Could  this  have  been 
done  through  any  human  power,  mind  or  intelli- 
gence? No,  Jesus  wrought  through  the  divine 
idea  which  forever  expresses  divine  wisdom,  power 
and  intelligence.  Without  the  operation  of  this 
divine  idea  in  human  consciousness  the  gospel  of 
"on  earth  peace,  good  will  toward  men,"  would 
never  have  been  taught  or  demonstrated.  It  con- 
stitutes the  very  life  blood  of  the  Christian  religion. 
The  universal  peace  of  nations  is  absolutely 
dependent  upon  it.     The  unprecedented  growth 


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and  success  of  the  Christian  Science  movement  is 
wholly  due  to  the  activity  of  the  true  idea  of  God 
as  voiced  to  the  world  in  Mrs.  Eddy's  discovery 
of  the  Science  of  Mind-healing. 

Right  mental  action  is  necessarily  constituted 
of  right  thoughts  or  ideas.  It  is  not  expressed 
through  finite  human  thought.  Why  were  there 
no  healing  works  accredited  to  John  the  Baptist.? 
Because,  according  to  his  own  admission,  he 
was  not  in  possession  of  the  Christ  consciousness. 
Jesus  said  of  John:  "Among  them  that  are  born 
of  women  there  hath  not  risen  a  greater  than  John 
the  Baptist:  notwithstanding  he  that  is  least  in 
the  kingdom  of  heaven  is  greater  than  he."  This 
somewhat  remarkable  statement  would  indicate 
that  the  least  degree  of  spiritual  understanding 
is  greater  than  anything  possessed  by  the  so-called 
human  mind  as  typified  in  John.  This  ought  to 
prove  to  all  thinking  persons  the  futility  of  looking 
to  any  human  source  for  healing  or  redemption. 
If  the  very  highest  and  purest  type  of  human 
thought  could  not  heal  in  John's  time,  it  cannot 
be  expected  to  do  so  today.  This  leads  at  once  to 
the  subject  of  healing  as  understood  and  practised 
in  Christian  Science. 

WHAT    IS    IT    THAT    HEALS? 

After  what  has  already  been  said  about  the 
spiritual  idea  one  will  naturally  anticipate  the 
answer  to  the  question,  What  is  it  that  heals.?  It 
must  be  that  which  expresses  activity,  law  and 


22  CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE: 

intelligence,  and  what  does  this  except  God's  per- 
fect idea?  The  only  power  which  operates  through 
the  idea  of  infinite  good  is  God,  the  one  Mind,  as 
Jesus  clearly  indicated  when  he  said,  "The  Father 
that  dwelleth  in  me,  he  doeth  the  works."  This 
understanding  of  the  power  that  heals  separates 
Christian  Science  healing  from  all  systems  which 
employ  the  mesmeric  or  counterfeit  forces  of  the 
human  mind  or  will.  The  Christ  method  of  healing 
is  rapidly  spreading  throughout  the  civilized  world, 
because  of  a  universal  demand  for  it,  and  a 
readiness  to  receive  metaphysical  instruction. 

CURING    VS.    HEALING 

Christian  Science  makes  a  clear-cut  distinction 
between  physical  curing  and  mental  healing.  It 
does  not  deny  the  many  instances  of  seeming  re- 
storation to  health  effected  through  various  human 
systems,  but  it  does  declare  that  until  the  true  idea 
or  understanding  of  God  is  relied  upon  to  do  the 
work,  the  Christ  healing  has  not  been  effected.  It 
declares  that  real  healing  can  be  accomplished  only 
through  that  intelligent  mental  activity  which  de- 
crees the  destruction  of  wrong  motives  and  of  the 
desire  to  sin.  Then  is  the  individual  "free  indeed," 
for  the  Son,  the  Christ  idea,  is  the  only  channel 
through  which  such  healing  could  come.  The 
limited  operation  of  human  consciousness  does  not 
lay  the  axe  at  the  root  of  the  trouble;  it  is 
palliative  rather  than  corrective.  It  deals  almost 
wholly   with  physical  symptoms   and   so   fails  to 


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grasp  the  one  all-important  subject  of  mental 
causation.  Christian  Science  healing  reasons  from 
cause  to  effect,  and  thus  first  establishes  in  thought 
what  it  would  have  externalized  on  the  body.  It 
knows  that  because  the  body  is  embraced  in  con- 
sciousness the  only  way  to  reach  the  body  is 
through  Mind,  through  consciousness,  not  through 
unconscious  matter.  It  says  to  the  sick  and  suf- 
fering: Fear  not,  resist  the  thought  of  disease, 
know  that  it  is  not  a  manifestation  of  intelligence 
and  that  God  forbids  all  belief  in  it;  awake  men- 
tally and  lay  claim  to  better  "things  which  God 
hath  prepared  for  them  that  love  Him."  The 
power  of  spiritual  or  right  thought  is  your  unfail- 
ing remedy. 

TREATMENT 

It  goes  without  saying  that  only  a  Christian 
Scientist  knows  how  to  give  a  Christian  Science 
treatment.  It  requires  honesty,  humility,  compas- 
sion, moral  purity  and  spiritual  understanding  to 
give  a  treatment  in  Christian  Science.  The  ex- 
pression or  reflection  of  God  through  His  own  pure 
thoughts  or  ideas,  constitutes  scientific  treatment, 
just  as  the  sunlight  expressed  or  reflected  through 
its  own  rays  results  in  the  dissipation  of  darkness. 
Simple  though  the  process  is,  no  one  but  a  Chris- 
tian can  understand  it  or  use  it.  It  is  beyond  the 
ken  of  human  will  power  or  "mental  suggestion" 
even  to  attempt  to  give  a  Christian  Science  treat- 
ment.   Why.?    Because  treatment  is  not  the  influ- 


24  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 

ence  of  one  human  mind  over  another.  It  is  the 
activity  of  the  Word  of  God  in  human  conscious- 
ness.   It  is  prayer  in  its  highest  and  truest  sense. 

RESULTS 

What  of  the  results  of  scientific  treatment? 
Observation  and  experience  both  compel  the  ad- 
mission that  the  most  successful  and  salutary  in- 
fluence known  to  the  world  today  is  the  practise 
of  Christian  Science.  As  a  prophylactic  or  pre- 
ventive with  both  children  and  adults  it  has  no 
compeer.  Unnumbered  cases  of  healing  of  nearly 
every  known  disease,  many  of  these  pronounced 
incurable  by  the  ablest  medical  authorities,  stand 
as  living  monuments  to  the  power  of  Truth.  So 
many  such  instances  of  healing  are  in  evidence 
that  practically  the  whole  world  agrees  on  one 
point,  that  Christian  Science  does  heal  the  sick. 
And  it  is  fast  acknowledging  something  of  still 
greater  moment,  that  what  is  called  physical  heal- 
ing in  Christian  Science  is  but  the  "outward  and 
visible  sign  of  an  inward  and  spiritual  grace," 
which  characterizes  the  Christ  consciousness. 
Christian  Science  teaches  us  to  seek  "first  the 
Kingdom  of  God  and  His  righteousness,"  and 
through  obedience,  moral  and  physical  healing  en- 
sues to  prove  that  we  have  touched  the  hem  of  the 
seamless  robe  of  righteous  thinking.  Christian  Sci- 
ence declares  that  there  can  be  no  reformation 
without  a  change  of  consciousness.  Standing  upon 
this    basis    it    becomes    the    only    sure    character 


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builder.  There  are  thousands  in  the  various  walks 
of  life  whose  lives  have  been  radically  and  per- 
manently transformed  through  the  ministrations 
of  Christian  Science.  In  finding  the  pearl  of  great 
price,  the  mental  process  by  which  they  can  work 
out  their  own  salvation,  they  have  learned  to  dis- 
criminate between  the  consciousness  of  good,  and 
that  of  the  uncorrected  carnal  or  mortal  mind 
which  is  enmity  against  good.  This  enables  them 
to  be  more  useful  men  and  women  in  every  depart- 
ment of  life  and  to  fill  important  posts  of  duty  for 
which  their  mental  awakening  has  specially  pre- 
pared them. 

Christian  Science  offers  the  one  and  only  solu- 
tion of  the  temperance  problem  because  it  rec- 
ognizes false  appetites  as  residing  in  mortal 
consciousness,  and  consequently  deals  with  them 
mentally  rather  than  externally.  One  Christian 
Science  treatment  has  frequently  cast  out  the 
demon  of  intemperance  in  its  very  worst  form.  It 
has  also  healed  the  morphine,  cocaine  and  other 
demoralizing  habits.  Where  there  has  been  "first 
a  willing  mind"  there  is  no  form  of  human  degrada- 
tion and  vice  that  has  not  yielded  to  the  activity 
of  right  thought.  Right  treatment  is  necessarily 
corrective  and  reformatory,  and  when  it  has  elimi- 
nated sin  from  thought  (by  sin  we  mean  all  erro- 
neous thinking),  it  has  wiped  out  the  cause  of  all 
the  discordant  conditions  of  earth.  This  is  pre- 
cisely what  Christian  Science  is  doing.  It  recog- 
nizes the  healing  of  disease  as  always  incidental 


26  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 

to  the  conquering  of  the  moral  fault  under  what- 
ever guise  it  may  appear. 

The  world's  literature  is  rapidly  becoming  per- 
meated with  higher  ideals  of  life,  resulting  from 
the  leavening  influence  of  the  Christ  idea  of  purity. 
The  cause  of  clean  journalism  has  received  a 
mighty  impetus  in  the  publication  of  The  Chris- 
tian  Science  Monitor,  a  daily  newspaper  for  the 
home,  free  from  all  demoralizing  news  items  and 
from  unreliable  advertising.  Could  any  one  deny 
the  effective  operation  of  right  thought  in  pro- 
jecting such  a  stupendous  educational  enterprise? 
Surely  not.  In  national,  state  and  municipal  ac- 
tivities we  witness  the  steady  advance  and  achieve- 
ment of  corrected  thought.  What  but  the  spirit- 
ual idea,  expressing  the  power,  law  and  dominion 
of  invincible  right,  could  inspire  and  lead  on  such  a 
mighty  mental  conflict  as  is  now  being  waged 
throughout  the  world  between  right  and  wrong? 
Truly  says  our  Leader :  "The  world  feels  the  alter- 
ative effect  of  truth  through  every  pore"  (  Science 
and  Health,  p.  224).  There  are  countless  thou- 
sands of  earth's  people  who  want  to  be  right  with 
God,  and  to  be  of  service  to  their  fellowmen,  and 
Christian  Science  is  satisfying  their  longings  as 
nothing  else  can.  Why?  Because  it  is  "the  resur- 
rection and  the  life"  to  all  who  would  know  and  do 
the  will  of  the  Father.  To  be  right  with  God  it  is 
absolutely  necessary  to  understand  who  man  is  and 
how  he  is  related  to  God. 


"THE   RESURRECTION   AND   THE   LIFE"       27 
THE    REAL    MAN 

Thoughts  emanating  from  the  brain  never  de- 
fined the  real  man,  God's  image  and  likeness.  They 
never  defined  anything  spiritually  or  scientifically. 
The  man  spoken  of  in  the  first  chapter  of  Genesis 
was  never  in  partnership  with  evil  in  any  form. 
He  was  and  is  the  mental  embodiment  of  all  that  is 
good,  pure  and  true.  The  world  as  yet  knows  very 
little  of  this  man  because  he  is  the  perfect  expres- 
sion of  a  perfect  Mind  or  intelligence,  and  human 
consciousness  is  not  yet  sufficiently  purified  to 
grasp  the  idea  of  spiritual  perfection.  Is  this 
man  a  wholly  unknown  quantity  in  human  experi- 
ence ?  Indeed  not !  On  the  contrary,  wherever  we 
witness  some  deed  of  kindness,  some  unselfish  act, 
some  manifestation  of  justice  and  mercy,  of  love 
and  compassion,  there  we  catch  a  glimpse  of  the 
real  man.  And  when  every  un godlike  thought  is 
ruled  out  of  consciousness,  and  nothing  but  the 
attributes  of  good  are  in  evidence,  the  active  mani- 
festation or  expression  of  these  attributes  will  con- 
stitute true  manhood  and  womanhood.  It  must, 
therefore,  be  evident  to  all  that  the  more  active  we 
are  in  reflecting  good,  the  sooner  will  the  spiritual 
idea  or  the  new  man  be  revealed  to  the  whole  world. 
This  is  the  great  work  that  Christian  Scientists  are 
engaged  in,  and  they  have  abundant  proof  that 
it  is  the  spiritual  healing  activity  of  the  Christ, 
Truth,  which  is  destined  to  leaven  the  whole  lump 
of  mortal  consciousness.     There  is  no  other  way 


28  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 

out  of  bondage,  for  "without  me  (the  Christ  con- 
sciousness) ye  can  do  nothing/'  "No  man  cometh 
unto  the  Father  but  by  me,"  said  Jesus. 

Christian  Science  is  daily  and  hourly  proving 
the  eternality  of  God  and  His  man.  It  is  lifting 
thought  out  of  matter  into  the  realms  of  pure 
Mind,  out  of  physics  into  metaphysics,  out  of  sinful 
sense  into  sinless  Soul.  In  no  other  way  will  the 
true  brotherhood  of  man  ever  be  established. 

A    PRACTICAL    SUGGESTION 

Christian  Science  does  not  quarrel  with  any  one 
over  the  subject  of  matter,  but  it  makes  this  prac- 
tical suggestion,  that  we  keep  thought  away  from 
matter  long  enough  to  discover  first  the  modus  and 
action  of  the  spiritual  idea.  If  we  will  but  accept 
trustingly  the  idea  of  the  supremacy  of  divine 
Mind,  and  apply  it  to  the  correction  of  some  dis- 
tressing physical  or  mental  condition,  according 
to  rules  laid  down  for  scientific  practise,  the  heal- 
ing which  is  sure  to  take  place  will  throw  a  new 
light  upon  matter,  a  light  w^hich  must  forever 
silence  all  opposition  to  whatever  Christian  Science 
has  to  say  about  the  nothingness  of  matter.  For- 
tunately for  the  human  race  matter  cannot  in- 
terpret Spirit,  else  all  would  be  matter.  But  as 
mortals  grow  in  spiritual  understanding  their 
sense  of  matter  changes  and  they  awake  to  the 
great  fact  that  "All  is  infinite  Mind,  and  its  infi- 
nite manifestation,  for  God  is  all  in  all"  (Science 
and  Health,  p.  468).     Upon  this  sure  foundation 


"THE   RESURRECTION   AND  THE   LIFE"       29 

any  honest  Truth  seeker  may  prove  by  degrees 
his  God-given  dominion  over  matter.  The  atomic 
theory,  and  that  is  all  that  it  ever  was — a  mere 
theory — has  not  advanced  the  health  or  morals 
of  mankind.  It  has  never  enabled  any  one  to 
become  spiritually  minded.  It  has  never  revealed 
the  Christ  idea  to  humanity.  Instead  it  has  up- 
held death  and  denied  eternal  Life  to  man.  Should 
Christian  Science  be  condemned  for  explaining 
away  a  theory  which  has  never  even  claimed  to 
purify  and  to  elevate  human  consciousness.'^  It 
does  this  not  by  argument  but  by  demonstration. 

DEMONSTRATION 

Demonstration  is  the  one  thing  that  is  always 
right  and  never  requires  any  argument  to  sustain 
it.  Talking  Christian  Science  without  practising 
its  precepts  is  not  demonstration.  The  practical 
overcoming  of  evil  with  good  gives  one  divine  au- 
thority to  "speak  the  word  of  God"  with  power. 
Demonstration  never  ensues  from  working  with  or 
through  matter,  nor  through  material  thought. 
There  is  just  one  premise  which  permits  of  scien- 
tific demonstration  and  that  is  the  supremacy  of 
divine  Mind.  Real  Mind  never  mixes  with  any- 
thing. For  this  and  no  other  reason  does  it  heal 
the  sick  and  reform  the  sinner.  Whatever  works 
from  two  bases  necessarily  denies  the  omnipotence 
of  good  and  fails  to  demonstrate  the  truth  of 
being.  Demonstration  is  not  simply  willing  things 
to  come  our  way.    It  is  not  saying,  "Peace,  peace ; 


30  CHRISTIAN   SCIENCE: 

when  there  is  no  peace."  It  is  the  willing  surren- 
der of  self  will  and  self  interest  for  the  good  of 
humanity.  It  is  always  the  conquest  of  self.  It 
is  the  practise  of  the  Golden  Rule  and  not  profes- 
sion. 

BELIEF    vs.    KNOWING 

There  may  be  some  people  who  believe,  erro- 
neously of  course,  that  Christian  Science  is  capable 
of  doing  evil  as  well  as  good.  This  same  opinion 
was  lodged  against  the  Master  of  old  by  those 
who  accused  him  of  casting  out  devils  through 
Beelzebub.  But  no  one  can  ever  know  that  Jesus 
did  evil,  nor  will  any  one  ever  know  that  Christian 
Science  is  capable  of  accomplishing  evil.  Blind 
human  belief  and  knowing  are  two  different  things. 
The  human  mind  so-called  can  believe  anything,  but 
to  know  involves  a  knowledge  of  facts.  One  might 
believe  that  the  earth  is  flat,  but  he  could  not  know 
it  to  be  so ;  or  that  two  and  two  are  five,  but  he 
could  not  know  it.  There  are  two  points  we  should 
not  overlook  while  considering  this  subject.  The 
first  is,  that  whatever  we  may  believe  concerning 
any  fact  does  not  change  or  alter  the  fact  itself — 
it  still  remains  a  fact.  The  second  is  this,  that 
the  moment  the  fact  becomes  known  in  any  given 
case,  the  belief  previously  entertained,  however 
plausible  or  real  it  may  have  seemed  to  be,  vanishes 
as  a  dream.  All  who  really  know  what  Christian 
Science  is  have  surrendered  changeable  human  be- 
lief for  spiritual  or  demonstrable  understanding. 


"THE   RESURRECTION   AND   THE   LIFE"       31 

Erroneous  mental  belief  is  very  much  like  counter- 
feit money,  the  instant  it  is  detected  for  what  it 
really  is  it  is  proven  worthless,  and  by  every  honest 
person  is  withdrawn  from  circulation.  We  do  well 
to  stop  and  ponder  what  a  different  world  this 
would  be,  here  and  now,  if  all  belief  in  evil  were 
withdrawn  from  circulation. 

THE    WAY    OUT 

The  surest  and  safest  way  of  ridding  one's  self 
of  any  and  all  erroneous  belief  relative  to  Christian 
Science  is  to  procure  a  copy  of  its  text-book,  "Sci- 
ence and  Health  with  Key  to  the  Scriptures"  by 
Mary  Baker  Eddy,  and  to  study  it  along  with  the 
Bible.  Simply  reading  these  books  with  a  view  to 
criticizing  them  from  an  intellectual  standpoint  will 
avail  little.  It  is  the  honest  student  who  scales  the 
summit  of  right  conclusions  concerning  spiritual 
things.  He  will  naturally  look  deeply  into  Science 
and  reach  the  point  of  demonstration  before  pass- 
ing judgment. 

There  is  no  more  profound  subject  than  the 
Science  of  being,  and  those  who  would  know  what 
Christian  Science  teaches  and  be  able  to  demon- 
strate it  should  confine  their  study  to  the  published 
works  of  our  Leader  and  to  the  authorized  litera- 
ture of  The  Christian  Science  Publishing  Society 
in  Boston.  The  secret  of  Christian  Science  heal- 
ing is  its  clear-cut  presentation  to  the  world  of 
spiritually  perfect  thought  models,  which  are  abso- 
lutely indispensable  to  the   correction   and   right 


82  CHRISTIAN    SCIENCE: 

education  of  human  consciousness.  These  thought 
models  are  scientifically  presented  to  the  world  in 
the  Bible  and  "Science  and  Health,"  and  whoever 
insists  upon  clinging  to  these  two  books  for  au- 
thority in  Christian  Science  will  find  in  them  "the 
way,  the  truth,  and  the  life." 

CONCLUSION 

In  our  efforts  to  understand  and  to  prove  the 
glorious  truths  of  Christian  Science,  it  behooves 
us  not  to  be  "weary  in  well  doing:  for  in  due  sea- 
son we  shall  reap,  if  we  faint  not."  May  we  all 
learn  to  "stand  still"  and  see  the  salvation  of  good 
with  us,  learn  to  silence  the  material  senses  and 
realize  that  the  eternal  God  of  Life,  Truth  and 
Love  is  our  refuge,  and  "underneath  are  the  ever- 
lasting arms."  Then  can  we  say  from  the  heart, 
"Thanks  be  unto  God  for  his  unspeakable  gift," 
Christian  Science. 


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